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This 100%.

But you don't need to go to Siberia for Earth to be extremely difficult to survive in. Wherever you are, if you lack technology your chance of surviving is very low. Without clothing, housing, fire, tools it's very, very hard to survive anywhere on Earth.

The only reason life is so safe and pleasant right now on this planet is because we changed our environment to make it so.

If we were to survive on Mars, we would have to do the same. The advantage with Mars is that we wouldn't have to start from scratch.



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